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Mark! I know what those icons are… a dizygotic twin! The Simpleology logo has delivered two babies! If you look carefully to the present logo, you see: (1) a square of which (2) the first part is red and the (2) second part is blue (3) and in between you see a womb… nurturing qubes! You know it`s true, don`t you?

Maybe it has something to do with outsourcing – just hit the Gray button and all your DTPs and Targets are outsourced to Disney Land for processing and implementation. Hit the Blue button and outsource it to one of the real locations, like Mexico or Guatemala… just a guess.

The white qubes are your Plus Self, and the Blue Qubes – falling apart - are your Minus Self. The new Simpleology is all about knowing who you are, and making strengthening decisions, feel strengthening feelings, think strengthening thougs, talking strengthening words and doing strengthening action – to solidify yourself from deep within. To conclude: the withe and the blue icons are like yin and yang, Simpleology and Simplexity.

I have no idea lol! But just to shoot from the icons the new feature is the building blocks task feature that helps you progress on previous tasks.
Or a replace what doesn’t fit to something that does…this may get the most funniest I think =p

I like this, and I’ll guess philosophical…. The boxes represent the areas of our life that we most want to manage well. Quadrangles or quads of character building with actions based on this framework give us the building blocks to easily accomplish what we want to do most, systematically, visually, in a fun way, kind of like a rubix cube, going from many variations, many results to simple actions, best results. Looking forward to the unveiling, Mark!

Second try: It could be a feature that helps you focus, plan, execute, and move forward within your “second quadrant”, according to Covey’s Time Managament Matrix, that is, the quadrant of important and not urgent things. Covey emphasizes this is the quadrant that we should focus on for long term achievement of goals

We´ve being ‘programmed’ for so long to act as everybody else, but now it´s time to get loose and think more creativey and upwards, and blue is the color for communication. So, communicate your creativity, be yourself and be happy!

four types of to-do’s. The one thing that seems to be missing is easy classification of items so that the important get done first. (urgent, unrgent/important, unrgent/not-important, and important). maybe one of the parts is tipped so that we realize it may somehow be a part (connect) of our lives, but not part of a congruent picture….. or it’s just an icon indicating that I am going to appear “off my rocker” to the group of professionals I introduced to Simpleology last week or the business class I introduced it to this morning. When they go looking for Simpleology.com and don’t find it, I’m sure my credibility will “fall off”.

One side are Daily Targets, Dream Catcher, Mental Lockbox & Delegation Station (or their upgraded equivalents) available at a tiled glance. The other side are Short/Medium/Long Term Focus, Trackers, Lists & Observations (or their upgraded equivalents) available at a tiled glance.

Since tasks are the lifeblood of Simplology, and goals are the heart of it, I’m guessing it’s a new view of tasks that lets you match up whether your tasks are towards your short, medium or long term goals, and the fourth box – anything else – is the one that should be tipped over and emptied into the trash??? (or at least the ‘delegate’ pile)
The background, naturally, is to hypnotise us into getting un-sleepy so we get stuck into them…

Tool for applying the DISC model to improve effectiveness in reaching goals. D in the top right quadrant stands for Directing: Get things done by taking on tasks with decisiveness and determination, overcoming barriers.

Okay, play time’s over. Now I have to put the blocks back in the box and get on with my to do list.

The boxes stand for tasks you complete that together build a long-term goal.
IN the left icon, all the tasks for the goal are completed, in the right icon, one task is still not completed, which is why it’s in a 45 degree angle and the boxes are still blue; when all are completed they will become white.

White boxes are targets for specific areas of your well being and personal targets to benefit yourself (i.e. Snowboard in the Himalayas). We’ll call those “Life Targets.” The blue boxes are for extra-personal targets, (moving the company to a new office space) the diamond represents the highest priority and are revamped “Daily Targets.”

Mental lockbox, Daily targets, Dream Catcher, Delegation Station. Whichever you have open, it turns sideways. And/OR Longterm, short term, medium focus, and trackers — whichever you have open, it turns sideways, making it easier to navigate between all of them and can be done from your phone.

On the other hand, it could be housing clusters where the builder went belly up and had one lot left. Someone came along who just dared to be different, driving the entire home owners association into such a tizzy that they sent so many notices to that individual that she glued them to the other houses in her area and painted them all blue during the night while everyone was asleep (with the help of some friends from out of town, of course). It turned out that the blue paint had this special shimmering quality to it and once the initial shock wore off, everyone loved it. They wanted to turn their house in different directions, too, and they ran the old home owners association board out of town! Then she shared that the whole thing was managed through her Simpleology account, including the Delegation Station, and everyone immediately signed up for Simpleology (under the new name, of course) and brought lots of great ideas to fruition in the neighborhood as a result. (For more on that story…

The first four boxes represent BROWSER ADD-ON, DAILY TARGETS, DREAM CATCHER, & GET RESULTS. The blue boxes represent the new items of NEWS, - prioritization, PRODUCTIVITY, REMINDERS, And the tilted one would be START MY DAY , cause we start each day with new goals, news & we see these all through the Wimiki Windows shown above! :o)

Now for the funny one the four white boxes represent the white collar workers, all going to work, all following the same mold. The blue collar workers are represented by the blue boxes and as we see three of them are following the same work hard and you’ll get ahead mold too. However the tilted one represents the 1- 2 % ers who have learned to think outside the box to create financial frrdom for their families by taking risks and actions that the other 99% are afraid to take. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, “You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing there will be no result.”

BTW- I have no idea, it’s a NEW feature and both icons represent it; seems like it would have to do with Major Focus, short term, medium and long term, with achievements being the askew box, but what’s new about that? maybe the definition and tracking? can’t wait to hear the answer!!!

The set on the left is my wife’s packing, the set on the left is mine. And I wonder why I can’t close the lid.
Could be the 4 quadrant time management model from Steven Covey (who just died @ 79). Now Simpleology will allow us to categorize our list from that model focusing on Q2 stuff to do.

Represents the money-making systems: Employee; Self-Employed; Entrepreneurial; REal – where the entrepreneurial system is emphasized (represented by the rhombus in the blue diagram) because all other systems derive from it.

(4 White Squares) Former simpleology system vs (3 Blue Squares/1 Rhombus) Better, more advanced simpleology system with the rhombus representing a new moniker and attitude, but with the same strong foundation in keeping it simple.

Which 2 Icons – there are 8 icons and if you count the cartoon guy that makes 9 icons. If I had to guess I would say the 4 white squares represent 4 white squares and the 3 blue squares represent 3 blue squares and the 1 tilted blue square represents 1 tilted blue square and the cartoon guy represents Mark Joyner. Or it could be the White group is My Day and in that group is Start, Targets, Catcher & Lockbox and the Blue group is My Life and in that is Stuff, Focus, Trackers & Lists. I’m also very certain the new, more pronounceable name is, “Simcomplexidogigolothismology”.

The white icon represents a standard order or approach for everyone; the blue icon signifies the same strengths as the first, but with a dynamic, unique personalised twist that allows the program to be more customisable.

Good strategy mark to get ideas (name) or making your idea better, an approach to see if your new logo/icons are making sense to user.I call it your backward planning for reborn Simpleology. ……… Kuldeep “GOT IT RIGHT” Singh

Oh Mark Joyner , you’re such a tease!
The only thing I can guess right now is the white four boxes represent something fixed and the blue boxes represent something customizable (the turned square) or accept the default settings (the three other squares). Now the only thing I can almost fit into that is the ability to categorize our targets as relating to time, energy or money, or a user-defined label (a feature request I submitted). However, I would then not know of the significance of the four white normal squares so I am doubtful that is correct.
Ooh, this is going to be bugging me all day! Please say we don’t need to wait a few months to get the answer!!!

@andrzejm007
It could well have something to do with the Eisenhower Matrix but why the emphasis on the top right blue square? Could it be that there is something significant about Important/Not Urgent targets that Mark is going to tell us? What could it be?
Could it be something to do with this?: http://timegt.com/2010/07/14/what-is-the-eisenhower-matrix/
Look at the yellow box. The article seems to be saying that people often choose the wrong prioritization after Important/Urgent. That could be what the twisted box represents in the blue diagram.

@andrzejm007 Another guess is, according to some, the top right square of the Eisenhower Matrix are “Important/Not Urgent” targets you should schedule. Perhaps it represents the new scheduling software the Mark has said is coming to the WebCockpit?

Hello Mark, thank you for comments! My impression is that in day-to-day practice I have very important tasks and trivial tasks mixed. I would like to see visual difference between the two groups. And squares looked for me like matrix

the first icon represents your simpeology before you let your 4 year old onto the computer, the second is afterward – “There you go daddy! Made it pretty for you!!!” – “ahhs that’s Great sweetie – but I don’t quite remember having that task down in my delegation station….”

The four white boxes are the currant system….centered, orderly,all ducks in a row. The new blue boxes say we are still centered, orderly, all ducks in a row but now we are going to stand this box on its head. HANG ON!!!!

My guess is that the icon on the left represents the building blocks to getting what you want in life and first introduced by a company formally known as Simpleology. It is necessary to keep this awesome package of functionality intact because some people still demand a little extra comlexity to their already complicated life, namely the pronuciation of the company formally know as Simpleology. The icon on the right, the one with the skewed block, represents a new breakthrough in the simple science of getting what you want. Clearly this breakthrough needed to be addressed with a new ‘cooler’ set of functionalites and a new name to replace the one formerly known as Simpleology. I won’t guess what the new name could be for legal reasons, but hey it’s a cool symbol and that’s okay too. P.S. here in Ireland when someone gives something away there’s always an expectation that the giver is gonna announce “and there’s one for everyone in the audience”.. And that would be super cool.
Mike

A feature that allows daily targets, dream catcher, mental lockbox and delegated tasks to be directly attributable to parts of all your major focuses (short, mid and long term) and trackers.
You can break down these major focuses into smaller actionable tasks and each task can then be added to your daily targets which then affect these focuses when checked off on the list.
Useful when planning a year or more in advance.

This would make it more widespread targeting and less linear as it is now, a bit like shooting at a “shoot the duck” fairground game with a shotgun as opposed to a BB gun.

It will have a more quantum effect on your plans and give weight to your overall plan.
You should call it the Higgs Feature.

The 1st 4 white boxes is Coors light as it sits on a shelf, doing nothing. The 4 blue boxes represent COLD Coors Light and I am taking the 1st one out, as I am sitting on a beach, having completed 4 of my goals and this is my reward!

Must be connected to the MIME protocol, so an upgrade to add mime functionality maybe.
But why white and slighlty different blue?
Maybe a free, white version, and an all-singing-all dancing, blue pro version?

Just in case nobody gets it, I should point out that this is a joke based on a joke based on a popular Facebook viral prank/hoax. So DON’T tell your friends about it! (You can’t be too careful, as demonstrated by how virulent this was on Facebook for several months!)

It’s a feature that checks your goals and life purpose and draws a systemic map, revealing hidden connections between both. Or maybe it is a feature that gives you daily insights about “outside the box” things.

This looks like you are integrating the time management quadrants Stephen Covey (RIP) mentions into your system, with quadrant 2 (the important but not urgent things in life) being emphasised by its different orientation on the right. As Covey puts it, it’s a feature intended to help us put ‘first things first’ consistently in our lives by getting the ‘big rocks’ in place first.

You’re going to put first things first in order to empower people. “By attending to one’s personal responsibilities first, an individual is better positioned to shoulder collective responsibilities.” Perhaps by taking care of what is important first will free up time for when urgent matters present themselves. A new way of thinking and prioritizing.

“Must be connected to the MIME protocol, so an upgrade to add mime functionality maybe.
But why white and slighlty different blue?
Maybe a free, white version, and an all-singing-all dancing, blue pro version?”

Plan and prioritize tasks so that only the tasks that are important are completed (without distraction) before becoming urgent and causing stress and overwhelm. Little time is then spent on other areas of your life that become the distraction.

The main point here is the point of view. You may see four squares, window, or three squares and rhombus, or broken window, or random squares. You will see what you want. The main question is what you want.

We do new a ‘new button’ which is not ‘deliberate then schedule’ but ‘put into my long finger box’ and one day a week I have to take one of my long fingered items out of the box and put into the ‘Do it now’ category. Because I want this feature I am going to say this icon means what I want !

Background of the icons represent keeping the ultimate vision in my mind and this vision influence on the work with tools pictured by two icons. Both white and blue helps to achieve goal. White represent tools for major stuff. Blue is dynamic, it is tool for work like trackers, lists. They stand integrated and work together for the ultimate goal.

The two sets of boxes represent the Eisenhower Method, named after President Eisenhower, which is a matrix where all All tasks are evaluated using the criteria important/unimportant and urgent/not urgent and put in according quadrants. The rotated box in the upper right corner of the blue set of boxes represents the Important, but not urgent tasks, because these are the tasks that one should focus. As is attributed to Eisenhower, What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important. The two new features will be (1) A way to sort tasks according to the Eisenhower Method and (2) A feature that will then hide all tasks that are not Important and Not Urgent (And potentially Important and Urgent when needed).
NB: This methodology is incorrectly attributed to the late Stephen Covey, but he merely popularized it. Like many of the concepts that Covey popularized, he never attributed them to their originators, as he felt that this was Not Important and/or Not Urgent, and so left the attribution of his ideas in these boxes his entire life. In fact, Mark Joyner actually came up with these concepts before Covey or Eisenhower, but like many of Joyner’s concepts, he never was given popular attribution. Yes, I know that you may claim that Eisenhower was alive before Joyner, but that is merely because Joyner has been using the concepts in ‘Simpleology 303: The Simple Science of Anti-Aging’ to extend his life far beyond normal people. In fact, Mark Joyner is the oldest person living on the earth currently at 803 years old. For the unitiated those two sets of boxes do represent the ‘Joyner method for prioritization,’ but for those who have taken Simpleology 303, they know that these are in fact alchemical symbols that are the keys to reversing aging and possibly living forever, the long sought after Philosopher’s Stone. You may say that there is no such thing as Simpleology 303, but this is simply because you don’t have the secret login given only to the Super Elite Simpleology members. In fact, Simpleology will soon be rebranded The Answer, because it will solve lifes most vexing question. These elite courses will be uber expensive at $100,000 a month, and only Billionaires like Richard Branson will sign up, but those who are currently Elite members of Simpleology will be grandfathered in, as they know what is truly Important. Thank you, Simon.

Rebooting is always a good thing! In fact, that’s part of the concept of simpler living in my experience – shedding what no longer is useful, refining the things that are, adding something new as things become more clear. Kudos and congrats!!!

I first bumped into this model through a course called “Your Time and Your Life” sold by Daytimers corporation, the analog version of Steve Covey’s Prioritization method. In it you prioritize tasks from A through D, A being the high priority items, B being Important items, C being items of some importance, and D being those items you really don’t have to do. The blue square that is rotating off the plane of the cube is actually the D tasks, and the blue represents those tasks from the white squares that have been prioritized. You can procrastinate indefinitely on the D’s but it sure is helpful to figure out what those are at the outset, as well as determining the absolute A* (the A Star) at the beginning of each day: this is the item that will have the most impact on your desired outcome(s). It is not always easy to determine but the process of sorting tasks in this way will help you to generate ideas about how best to accomplish this and help you experience a sense of your own mastery.

And, given the HIME connection, I’d also guess that the top right hand corner of the blue group, being where your attention should be focussed – on the tasks with the Highest Impact, Minumum Effort, is a diamond shape specifically to help you focus on those. The high value diamondon connotation, plus the differentiation by the shape.

Still wondering about the white and blue though. Not sure if my first guess of regular vs Elite is anywhere close. Could be those Power (vs regular) Features you mention, especially given your use of a similar colour in the cartoon. Or could it be that the progress to the power features will be available to everybody, and they are evolving from white (current/regular) to blue (future/power)?

Hi Mark I’m guessing Diamond Blueprint, perhaps a name of a feature, but I’m not quite sure what it is. If I were doing a cryptic crossword this would be my guess. Hey Mark, I love Simpleology with or without the changes. I recommend to everyone to use this awesome tool to simplify their lives to the max
- Keep up the great work!

A true blessing to the world. Finally a remedy to a growing populationof outcasts, a suffering population of individuals who practice things unimaginable to some,things that would make you skin crawl and your stomach turn…

….. SUDOKU ADDICTS.

There I said it… SUDOKU ADDICTS $#@! ….. Salvation is yours.

With these new features you will be able to finally rid yourself
of this heinous habit and once again use the toilet for the purpose god intended.
Thank you Mark for this gracious wonderful gift.

I thought mine was funny but OmryMan yours is hilarious!! ( Ok I’ll admit I’m hooked on Sudoku and there was some truth to your statement but it was great!! ILMAO, dropped the sudoku book & almost fell off the toilet!!)

This is a sign that Lex Luthor really created Simpleology and is now taking over the real world! Did anyone else get a Lex Luthor vibe from the guy presenting the changes? Mark Joyner, I’ve found out your secret identity!

Mehh I can’t get any idea of what they might represent. So I’ll just bank this comment on the chance of getting a random pick. If that happens here’s my email address for easier rewarding: cris_de1@yahoo.com :P Ugh, ok I’ll give it a try. The white squares symbolize the morning brain dump items and the blue squares are the daily target items.

What new can still come from simpleology after all the changes and improvements in the recent future. it must have to do with goals so that one can have more than one goal for short term goals at least.

The white and blue squares are for integrating your Simpleology Targets locally. So if one of my Targets is to get a job in my town, this will integrate with local listings as I set it up. Or if I buy pet food for my cat in my town, it will show up on my smartphone or tablet’s Simpelology interface with geo-location looking it up and from there you can get directions. Then when you walk into the store it will note this (as with Foursquare and similar apps) and if you have automatic logging of purchases or photo-receipt logging, it will note this as well and check off your target box as well, as having been done. Or if I need to go to the post office, bank, or library, there will be a way to set these up for integration as well. This will show up, also, on the home interface (laptop, etc.)

The background is the geo-location and the “looking for” people for Systems Leverage for people, businesses, others with similar interests on Simpleology and through the larger networks of social media. Ping…ping….ping…
I kinda like the X-Ray Specs idea, though.

The new feature filters your thoughts, ideas and to-dos in “Start My Day” by sorting them according to the four quadrants of the Time Management Matrix (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey) and aligning those thoughts, ideas and to-dos that help you achieve your goals with Quadrant II (Not Urgent But Important), the heart of effective personal management. The feature will help you maintain a proper balance of your “Daily Targets” to effectively achieve the “Stuff I Want.”

Or alternatively, the new feature is based on Habit 7, “Sharpen the Saw” (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey). “Sharpen the Saw” means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual. The feature will help you renew yourself in each of the four areas by using “Start My Day” to manage activities to help you maintain a program for self-renewal in the four areas of “My Life.”

The unbalanced square shows the singularity of thinking or individuality of seeing reality. The 2 set of 4 squares is the transformation from one state to another, with the other having the doted singularity obtained. 4 squares defenitely give more stability than triangles or circles. Nevertheless squares are still giving the idea of frames, not “order”, so I like the idea of something sticking out – that I rather see as singularity. Blue is often associated with lenguage/words/communication/flow/sequence/progress – just first thoughts..YR

Poeple goes out from his fear and starting a business, has not enough money for living every day, but he/she goes on and on even if him scare everyone laugh his plans and everyone say you are only a dreamer….. Whit good idea full of courage he /she work hard on the Plane, schedule…….After that over the years built a foundation stone and the last square is a symbol of victory over myself and years of effort over fear. Victory, when he ceased to be afraid to change the plan and went to swell and distributed work, the joy, the love, the dignity of every human being on this earth. Joy is a world without war, a full work conditions, dignified existence. long live the one that is brave. Victory belongs to him ………….IŠ